Sprinkling-flask, &amp;c., for toilet purposes.



No. 629,038. Patented July 18, I899.

' K. A. LINGNER.

SPRINKLING FLASK, m, FOR TOILET PURPOSES. (Application flle4 i Apr. 25,1894; (No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,038, dated July 18,1899;

Application filed April 25, 1894. Serial No. 508,912. (No model.)

The object of this invention is to provide a sprinkling bottle, flask,or flagon for containing perfumery, cosmetics, antiseptics, toiletwater,and like liquids and from which such liquids may be ejected inpredetermined quantities, or nearly so, by turning the bottle from itsvertical position into a horizontal or nearly horizontal positionwithout the objectionable effects which result from the ejection of suchliquids from the sprinkling bottles and vessels in common use for thepurposeviz., that the air contained in the upper part of the bottleandthe air entering into the bottle in proportion to the ejected liquidbubbles through the whole body of the liquid in the bottle, suchbubbling of air through the body of the liquid not only stirring up anysediment atthe bottom of the bottle, but when repeated in the regularuse of the bottle damaging very delicate volatile oils contained in thecontents of such bottles by exposing them so extensively to air in afinely-divided state.

According to the present invention the sprinkling-bottle is constructedmainly of an upright body which contracts into a narrow -neck,terminating in a position at a right angle, or nearly so, to thevertical axial line of the main body of the bottle. This form of bottle,with the contracted narrow neck at a right angle to the main verticalaxial line of the bottle, insures safety in handling by requiring thebottle for the outlet of a predetermined quantity of fluid to be turnedonly a distance of ninety degrees, whereby the sprinkling of the desiredquantity of liquid out of the bottle takes place, while the air which.was previously in the bottle remains undisturbed at the top of theliquid therein, and the additional small quantity of air which entersthe bottle to take the place of the liquid ejected has only to passthrough the small quantity of liquid contained in the neck of thebottle. By this construction of the bottle I dispensewith all those moreor less complicated devices hitherto madeand proposed for sprinklingfluids in small quantities from botties containing them, such as smallperforations, in combination with screws, plugs, doc.

Figure l is a side View of my improved sprinkling-bottle,the mouth partof said bottle being shown in section and without any cap or closure.Fig. 2 is a similar view with the closing-capsule on the mouth part.Fig. 3 represents a central section and an inner side View of thecapsule perforated for the use of the bottle. Fig. 4 is a side View,partly sectional, of the bottle in a horizontal position.

The bottle consists, mainly, of the upright body a with a contractedneck 1), the said body having a substantially flat base, upon which itmay stand in an upright position, and the neck being at or nearly at aright angle to the body,so that it is horizontal,or nearly so,when thebottle stands upright. The bottle thus constructed has its mouth fittedwith a perforable cover or closure. In the example represented theclosure consists of a cap of suitable in aterial ,as thin metal,cementedover the month. In this cap a hole of suitable size is made. In thedetachedview, Fig. 3, c is the hole in the middle of the cap. Such ahole may be easilyvmade by the butt of a wooden match or such like. Thehole is to be large enough to allow the desired quantity of liquid to beejected from the bottle if the same is turned into the position Fig. 4for sprinkling action.

To illustrate the operation of the bottle in sprinkling,-I haveindicated by a line 6 e in Figs. 2 and 4 the level of the liquid in thebottle in its upright and horizontal positions. It may be understood byreference to these figures that the air contained in the space above theliquid does not in moving the bottle from the former to the latterposition have to pass through the liquid, as it does in an. ordinarybottle, which has to be completely or almost entirely inverted forsprinkling, but

the said air remains undisturbed on the sun face of the liquid. It mayalso be understood by reference to Fig. 4- that the small quantity ofair entering at c to take the place of the liquid ejected although ithas to pass in bubbles, asindicated by i 2', through the liquid in thebottle has to pass but a short distance and only through the smallquantity of the liquid which is in the neck and not a long distancethrough the bulk of the liquid contained in the body of the bottle, asit must do in a common bottle.

What I claim as my invention is- A sprinkling-bottle for toilet purposesconsisting of a body having a base on which it stands upright and havingits end opposite the base developed into acontracted curved neck whichprojects at a right angle, or nearly so, to the body and having, at theend of the contracted neck, the sole opening to and from the interior ofthe bottle, the said neck being fitted at its open end with a perforablecover, substantially as herein described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

KARL AUGUST LINGNER.

\Vitnesses:

HERNANDO DE SoTo, OSCAR KELLER.

